“I had been heaping up my devotions before God, fasting, praying, &c. pretending, and indeed really thinking sometimes, that I was aiming at the glory of God; whereas I never once truly intended it, but only my own happiness. I”
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The Life and Diary of David Brainerd with Notes and Reflections by Jonathan Edwards
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